Plutarch’s Parallel Lives

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ancient Greek literature biographical work classical biography collection

Plutarch’s Parallel Lives is a series of biographies by the ancient Greek writer Plutarch that pairs notable Greek and Roman figures to explore their characters and moral lessons.

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All labels observed (36)

Label	Occurrences
Plutarch's Lives	10
Plutarch’s Parallel Lives canonical	9
Plutarch’s Lives	7
Plutarch's Parallel Lives	5
Plutarch's "Life of Antony"	2
Plutarch’s Life of Romulus	2
corpus of Plutarch’s Lives	2
Greek Lives	1
Life of Demosthenes	1
Life of Pericles	1
Life of Philopoemen	1
Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans	1
Moralia and Lives tradition of Plutarch	1
Parallel Lives of Noble Greeks and Romans	1
Plutarch's "Life of Pyrrhus"	1
Plutarch's Life of Cato the Younger	1
Plutarch's Life of Cicero	1
Plutarch's Life of Cimon	1
Plutarch's Life of Mark Antony	1
Plutarch's Life of Pericles	1
Plutarch's Life of Sertorius	1
Plutarch, Life of Cleomenes	1
Plutarch’s "Lives"	1
Plutarch’s Life of Cato the Younger	1
Plutarch’s Life of Lysander	1
Plutarch’s Life of Pericles	1
Plutarch’s Life of Pompey	1
Plutarch’s Life of Pyrrhus	1
Plutarch’s Lives (various translations)	1
Plutarch’s Lives of eminent Greeks and Romans	1
Plutarch’s Parallel Lives collection	1
Plutarch’s Parallel Lives corpus	1
Plutarch’s Parallel Lives series	1
Plutarch’s writings	1
Volume 12: Plutarch's Lives (Selections)	1
writings of Plutarch	1

Statements (60)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient Greek literature ⓘ biographical work ⓘ classical biography collection ⓘ
author	Plutarch ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Greek Antiquity ⓘ surface form: Ancient Greece
genre	biography ⓘ moral literature ⓘ
hasPart	Life of Aemilius Paulus ⓘ Life of Agesilaus ⓘ Life of Alcibiades ⓘ Life of Alexander ⓘ Life of Antony ⓘ Life of Aratus ⓘ Artaxerxes I of Persia ⓘ surface form: Life of Artaxerxes Life of Brutus ⓘ Life of Camillus ⓘ Vita di Cicerone ⓘ surface form: Life of Cicero Life of Cimon ⓘ Coriolanus ⓘ surface form: Life of Coriolanus Life of Crassus ⓘ Life of Antony ⓘ surface form: Life of Demetrius Plutarch’s Parallel Lives self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Life of Demosthenes Life of Dion ⓘ Life of Fabius Maximus ⓘ Life of Galba ⓘ Life of Julius Caesar ⓘ Life of Lucullus ⓘ Life of Lycurgus ⓘ Life of Marcellus ⓘ Life of Marius ⓘ Life of Nicias ⓘ Life of Numa Pompilius ⓘ Life of Otho ⓘ Life of Pelopidas ⓘ Plutarch’s Parallel Lives self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Life of Pericles Plutarch’s Parallel Lives self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Life of Philopoemen Life of Pompey ⓘ Life of Publicola ⓘ Life of Pyrrhus ⓘ Life of Romulus ⓘ Life of Solon ⓘ Life of Themistocles ⓘ Life of Theseus ⓘ Life of Timoleon ⓘ Life of Titus Quinctius Flamininus ⓘ
influenced	Enlightenment philosophy ⓘ surface form: Enlightenment moral philosophy Renaissance biography ⓘ William Shakespeare ⓘ
literaryForm	prose ⓘ
notableFeature	comparative method ⓘ moralizing commentary ⓘ synkrisis (formal comparison) at end of pairs ⓘ
originalLanguage	Ancient Greek ⓘ
purpose	character study ⓘ moral instruction ⓘ
structure	paired biographies ⓘ
subjectMatter	notable Greeks ⓘ notable Romans ⓘ
timeOfComposition	early 2nd century CE ⓘ late 1st century CE ⓘ

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